The_Tiki
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- Nov 19, 2019
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Hey, long time lurker but first time poster.
Over the past week, I grinded like crazy and set up a pretty sophisticated (for me at least) email marketing system to sell affiliate products to cold traffic. I had high hopes for this idea but I'm starting to think that I went in the wrong direction. This method is not new by any means but I spent a lot of time researching and fiddling around with stuff in order to get it to work.
Using an old domain I had set up on Bluehost, I installed an automatic email marketing software to run my campaigns. My plan was to use this drip campaign to filter out the bad email addresses. The process is as follows:
Cold email leads are added into the funnel and are immediately sent an introductory email. If this email is opened within 7 days, they are added to a "valid email address" group. This group is then started on a weekly campaign that showcases my affiliate products.
If the email is not opened, this address is essentially trashed.
I've personally scraped over 150k email addresses and found a way to send bulk emails for pennies. So that's awesome. I'm also able to scrape thousands more a day so I'll have no problems getting new leads. All addresses are B2B and I sell B2B products / services.
However, my accounts (like on Sendgrid) are getting banned after initial sends because there are too many bounces. My stats so far have been:
20k emails sent, 5% open rate, 7% CTR, 0 spam reports, 4% bounce rate, 0 conversions.
That open rate is pretty low but the initial stats look promising. I'm still optimistic that it can work but I need to find a way to validate email addresses for very cheap. My current thoughts / ideas are:
1. Create multiple Sendgrid trial accounts (of 2000 contacts) and blast an email to see the bounces. Take only the opens and add them to my real campaigns. Rinse and repeat.
2. Manually filter the address in Google Sheets. Take away the "risky" addresses like [email protected] or [email protected] and leave only @gmails & @hotmails etc.
If anyone has any guidance to offer, even if it means giving up on this idea entirely, I would love the feedback. A free coffee to whoever points me in the best direction
Over the past week, I grinded like crazy and set up a pretty sophisticated (for me at least) email marketing system to sell affiliate products to cold traffic. I had high hopes for this idea but I'm starting to think that I went in the wrong direction. This method is not new by any means but I spent a lot of time researching and fiddling around with stuff in order to get it to work.
Using an old domain I had set up on Bluehost, I installed an automatic email marketing software to run my campaigns. My plan was to use this drip campaign to filter out the bad email addresses. The process is as follows:
Cold email leads are added into the funnel and are immediately sent an introductory email. If this email is opened within 7 days, they are added to a "valid email address" group. This group is then started on a weekly campaign that showcases my affiliate products.
If the email is not opened, this address is essentially trashed.
I've personally scraped over 150k email addresses and found a way to send bulk emails for pennies. So that's awesome. I'm also able to scrape thousands more a day so I'll have no problems getting new leads. All addresses are B2B and I sell B2B products / services.
However, my accounts (like on Sendgrid) are getting banned after initial sends because there are too many bounces. My stats so far have been:
20k emails sent, 5% open rate, 7% CTR, 0 spam reports, 4% bounce rate, 0 conversions.
That open rate is pretty low but the initial stats look promising. I'm still optimistic that it can work but I need to find a way to validate email addresses for very cheap. My current thoughts / ideas are:
1. Create multiple Sendgrid trial accounts (of 2000 contacts) and blast an email to see the bounces. Take only the opens and add them to my real campaigns. Rinse and repeat.
2. Manually filter the address in Google Sheets. Take away the "risky" addresses like [email protected] or [email protected] and leave only @gmails & @hotmails etc.
If anyone has any guidance to offer, even if it means giving up on this idea entirely, I would love the feedback. A free coffee to whoever points me in the best direction
